Next Events

• September 29, 2006 : What's New in Internet Explorer 7 for Developers
• October 4, 2006 : Technical Overview of Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 and Office SharePoint Server 2007
• October 5, 2006 : VISUG - Windows Workflow Foundation
• October 14, 2006 : BIWUG - Upgrading Windows SharePoint Services v2 and Migrating CMS 2002
• November 7-10, 2006 : TechEd Developers 2006

.NET Framework 3.0 - MSDN Event

Monday I've been to the MSDN Event (.NET Framework 3.0) at Kinepolis (Brussels). The event was already fully booked (750 attendees) a few weeks before! Very interesting to see that so many people in Belgium are already interested in the .NET Framework 3.0. My guess is that still a lot of developers are currently using the .NET Framework 1.1 (not even 2.0), but they are already attracted to many of the new features in the .NET Framework 3.0 : WPF, InfoCard, WCF and WF.



Is this typical behavior for the IT industry? Looking at the future and learning what to expect and how to prepare for it, while still - happily or not - facing the daily issues of the current (old?) technology? Wouldn't it be great to have a last/final version of the framework (all-in!) ;-)? Yeah right! Dream on! It's our destiny as techies to adapt ourselves again and again. We may have a high-demanding job, but it will never be boring. That's for sure!

By the way : Peter Himschoot and Ingo Rammer did a great job in presenting the new features of the .NET Framework 3.0. Like always, no remarks on the organization of the events : enough food and drinks, even with a packed Kinepolis. Looking forward to the next one!

ASP.NET Membership and Roles

In previous posts (Forms Authentication in ASP.NET 2.0 - Personalization and Web Parts in ASP.NET 2.0) I talked already about the ASP.NET Membership functionality, but recently I had an issue with adding a role automatically to a newly created user with the CreateUserWizard control. At that time I had a workaround for this problem, but it didn't feel really good/natural to implement it that way. So, here's the one and only solution :

    protected void CreateUserWizard1_CreatedUser(object sender, EventArgs e)

    {

        //Add each created user automatically to the Users role

        Roles.AddUserToRole(CreateUserWizard1.UserName, "Users");

    }

The CreateUserWizard control has an event CreatedUser that fires immediately after the new user has been created. In that event you can call the AddUserToRole method on the Web.Security.Roles object.